Indo-china: Now On to Camp Fortuitous'

The Marines had the dangerous job: evacuating the last Americans and
South Vietnamese from Saigon by helicopter. Now a necessary but dreary
job confronts the armed forces and swarms of bureaucrats: housing,
processing and relocating an estimated 120,000 South Vietnamese
refugees.

Tens of thousands of evacuees had already reached the three principal
U.S. "staging areas" in the Pacific: Guam, Wake Island and Clark Air
Force Base in the Philippines. Others were scattered on Saipan, 250
miles from Guam, where 56 refugees landed after commandeering a South
Vietnamese C130; at the U.S. naval base...